VariableMetricEDMEstimator.cxx

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// @(#)root/minuit2:$Id$
// Authors: M. Winkler, F. James, L. Moneta, A. Zsenei   2003-2005
 
/**********************************************************************
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 * Copyright (c) 2005 LCG ROOT Math team,  CERN/PH-SFT                *
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#include "Minuit2/VariableMetricEDMEstimator.h"
#include "Minuit2/FunctionGradient.h"
#include "Minuit2/MinimumError.h"
 
namespace ROOT {
 
namespace Minuit2 {
 
double similarity(const LAVector &, const LASymMatrix &);
 
double VariableMetricEDMEstimator::Estimate(const FunctionGradient &g, const MinimumError &e) const
{
   // estimate the edm (expected distance to the minimum) =  0.5 * g^T V g  (where V is the error matrix, inverse of
   // Hessian) assuminigfirst derivatives if F are zero at the mminimum,
 
   if (e.InvHessian().size() == 1)
      return 0.5 * g.Grad()(0) * g.Grad()(0) * e.InvHessian()(0, 0);
 
   double rho = similarity(g.Grad(), e.InvHessian());
   return 0.5 * rho;
}
 
} // namespace Minuit2
 
} // namespace ROOT